Who is the Devil? Is the Devil real? How do you know that the Devil is real?

Because the Church, the Fathers and the texts of our Divine Services teach us so. This Liar of Liars seeks and succeeds in deceiving many. He is much more than the stuff of the cinema and may appear as an angel in order to deceive.

Who is the Devil? Is the Devil real? How do you know that the Devil is real?

Because the Church, the Fathers and the texts of our Divine Services teach us so. This Liar of Liars seeks and succeeds in deceiving many. He is much more than the stuff of the cinema and may appear as an angel in order to deceive.

How do you know He exist. Who is he as a person, you just told me some attributes (Liar of liars). Where does he originate from, what is the deal with him, what is his problem and most importantly how do YOU know he exists?

Who is the Devil? Is the Devil real? How do you know that the Devil is real?

Because the Church, the Fathers and the texts of our Divine Services teach us so. This Liar of Liars seeks and succeeds in deceiving many. He is much more than the stuff of the cinema and may appear as an angel in order to deceive.

How do you know He exist. Who is he as a person, you just told me some attributes (Liar of liars). Where does he originate from, what is the deal with him, what is his problem and most importantly how do YOU know he exists?

The same way I know God exists, faith. Which is not perhaps as strange as it sounds. Like others I am bombarded with information all day, every day. A largely unconscious weighing up may take place, but a lot is probably accepted on little more than faith.

It doesn't mean I necessarily comprehend everything. In the scheme of things my car is fairly simple but I don't need to understand its' working in order to use it, mercifully.

These are not the answers you want, but why do you wish to know the answers? Others may help.

Who is the Devil? Is the Devil real? How do you know that the Devil is real?

Because the Church, the Fathers and the texts of our Divine Services teach us so. This Liar of Liars seeks and succeeds in deceiving many. He is much more than the stuff of the cinema and may appear as an angel in order to deceive.

How do you know He exist. Who is he as a person, you just told me some attributes (Liar of liars). Where does he originate from, what is the deal with him, what is his problem and most importantly how do YOU know he exists?

The same way I know God exists, faith. Which is not perhaps as strange as it sounds. Like others I am bombarded with information all day, every day. A largely unconscious weighing up may take place, but a lot is probably accepted on little more than faith.

It doesn't mean I necessarily comprehend everything. In the scheme of things my car is fairly simple but I don't need to understand its' working in order to use it, mercifully.

These are not the answers you want, but why do you wish to know the answers? Others may help.

Best wishes.

So do you perceive God anyway other than by faith? Is it the same way with the Devil? Do you perceive the Devil in any way in your life? How do you know your perception (if you have it) is not another side of God? How do you know the Devil exists? The devil doesn't have to exist, just because God exists. How do you know the Devil is real? Who is the Devil?

I am asking this question so to clarify some things for myself and my current situation, and the things that have come to me.

- Through their fruits. In the case of God, the life, teaching and activity of the Church including were things have touched upon me.

- in the case of the Devil, I have met what may only be described as unbridled evil and again the fruit including speaking at length to both clergy and laity who have undertaken or witnessed exorcisms. In those cases I used the same skills that lead prior to my retirement to be asked by statutory agencies to express an opinion on the reliability of statements by witnesses.

Sorry, I have no more to offer. Maybe others more able than I will better answer your questions.

- Through their fruits. In the case of God, the life, teaching and activity of the Church including were things have touched upon me.

- in the case of the Devil, I have met what may only be described as unbridled evil and again the fruit including speaking at length to both clergy and laity who have undertaken or witnessed exorcisms. In those cases I used the same skills that lead prior to my retirement to be asked by statutory agencies to express an opinion on the reliability of statements by witnesses.

Sorry, I have no more to offer. Maybe others more able than I will better answer your questions.

How do you know this "evil" was the Devil or any "evil" for that matter. How do you know it was the Devil. Who is the Devil. Maybe it was the other part of the same coin : God. After all what is the purpose of any evil?

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

The devil is a fallen angel. Yes, he is real. We know because the Church has told us.

How do you know the Church, Christianity or even the Bible are true? Why must there be a devil?

Fulfilled propheciesEyewitness accounts

Examples? Anything that doesn't have a natural a logical explanation?

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The power of God within our lives and in the ChurchFaith

What power would that be? Anything that doesn't have a natural explanation?

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There doesn't "have" to be a devil, but there is. Just like there doesn't "have" to be a you or I, but there is.

I think for some people there needs to be a devil to explain all the "evil" away. But do you actually have any perception of the devil other than believing he exists simply by "faith" ? I am real. You are real. How do you know the Devil is real?

The devil is a fallen angel. Yes, he is real. We know because the Church has told us.

How do you know the Church, Christianity or even the Bible are true? Why must there be a devil?

Fulfilled propheciesEyewitness accounts

Examples? Anything that doesn't have a natural a logical explanation?

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The power of God within our lives and in the ChurchFaith

What power would that be? Anything that doesn't have a natural explanation?

For the skeptic, there is never enough evidence, for the faithful, there is no need. I have had enough experiences in my life to feel comfortable in my conclusions. I am sorry if you have not had the same experience.

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There doesn't "have" to be a devil, but there is. Just like there doesn't "have" to be a you or I, but there is.

I think for some people there needs to be a devil to explain all the "evil" away. But do you actually have any perception of the devil other than believing he exists simply by "faith" ? I am real. You are real. How do you know the Devil is real?

How do you know I'm real? How do I know you are real? There are many chatbots that can write exactly what we write. You take it on faith that I am real.

The devil is a fallen angel. Yes, he is real. We know because the Church has told us.

How do you know the Church, Christianity or even the Bible are true? Why must there be a devil?

Fulfilled propheciesEyewitness accounts

Examples? Anything that doesn't have a natural a logical explanation?

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The power of God within our lives and in the ChurchFaith

What power would that be? Anything that doesn't have a natural explanation?

For the skeptic, there is never enough evidence, for the faithful, there is no need. I have had enough experiences in my life to feel comfortable in my conclusions. I am sorry if you have not had the same experience.

Isn't that ironic? It is the skeptic that needs evidence not the believer. Auto-suggestion is a powerfull thing.

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There doesn't "have" to be a devil, but there is. Just like there doesn't "have" to be a you or I, but there is.

I think for some people there needs to be a devil to explain all the "evil" away. But do you actually have any perception of the devil other than believing he exists simply by "faith" ? I am real. You are real. How do you know the Devil is real?

How do you know I'm real? How do I know you are real? There are many chatbots that can write exactly what we write. You take it on faith that I am real.

Ok I know for sure I am real. I dunno about you. Should I take it that the existence of the Devil is just something you take by faith?

So what is the Devil to you, the entity of evil? Is there an entity outside God? Is God limited? How do you know this entity is not God himself? Why not a dualistic God?

If you know you are real, and you are a separate entity than God, why do you have a hard time believing the devil is a separate individual? Why would you even consider him to be God?

Nonsense.

What God does, His actions, in the end are all in order to bring us closer to Him, and for our own salvation....even if we don't see it that way at the time.

The devil tempts us daily, trying to get us to stumble, he sews anger, discontent, jealousy, he whispers gossip in our ears, and makes us doubt not only ourselves, but, others.....

Why?

In order to drive us further from God.

Polar opposites.

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Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

Does the skeptic need evidence? Perhaps he just needs humility to accept that he will never have all the answers.

I believe that the Devil is a created being who, using free will, abandoned his God given purpose and fell from glory. He did not create sin, since sin is not a "thing", it is the absence of holiness. He has no control over us, but he can influence us. I know he is not God because it is logically impossible for God to abandon His own nature. God is supernatural, not schizophrenic.

God can give the grace a person needs to overcome what he is going through. Now, if we are talking about the God imagined by Calvinists, then what you arrived to makes sense. But we are not Calvinists, are we?

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I was not speaking of separateness but about being part of God. Isn't it God ALL, THE WHOLE and more than it?

Meaning God is the cause of all things? So what has happened to free will?

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My question to you is how do you know who and when is the Devil and that he exists as an Entity? How do you know he is real? Tell me.

Is the words of Jesus good enough for you?

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And He said to them, It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.'

If you know you are real, and you are a separate entity than God, why do you have a hard time believing the devil is a separate individual? Why would you even consider him to be God?

Nonsense.

What God does, His actions, in the end are all in order to bring us closer to Him, and for our own salvation....even if we don't see it that way at the time.

The devil tempts us daily, trying to get us to stumble, he sews anger, discontent, jealousy, he whispers gossip in our ears, and makes us doubt not only ourselves, but, others.....

Why?

In order to drive us further from God.

Polar opposites.

So even the worst evil is made to bring us closer to God? Than who is the architecht of all this "evil" if not God?

I was not speaking of separateness but about being part of God. Isn't it God ALL, THE WHOLE and more than it?

My question to you is how do you know who and when is the Devil and that he exists as an Entity? How do you know he is real? Tell me.

Sounds like you have deeper issues than whether or not the Devil is real. If you don't believe Jesus is real, then why believe in the existence of the Devil?

The story of Jesus can be seen as a narcisist and unnecessary act. After all God is God if exists, he has no limitations. Always look at the results. How did that influence the world and made it a better place ? It just put God on the spot, and bring more fear and terror to people, especially by the idea of hell and hell eternal and other errors. Perhaps there is more to this world than 'narrow-minded, hypocrite and violent' Christianity (before you jump on my head I did not totally excluded the possibility of the existence of a good Christianity or the totall exclusion of Christianity from truth).. I used this epithetes because this was the Christianity of most fathers, a narrow-minded , violent Apologetics with shades of hypocrisy always hidden under the cover of 'the Church' , and Church grandomania. Perhaps the Christian story was misread all this years (there are many branches of Christianity today that consider Jesus just a main man, who achieved his potential and etc, hell there is even a branch called Atheistic Christianity). So you see even being Atheistic I am covered as a Christian , of having faith in Christ (being historical or not) and picking and choosing(in the end everybody picks and chooses from the Bible as in to how to interpret certain events). The bible is not the Epigraph of Ethicism and Morality. Esspecially if not read and understood in a most non-literal manner. My idea is.. perhaps there is no God.. and perhaps no Devil.. One thing is sure If A(God) exists than B(the Devil) does not have to exist. The existence of the Devil is just engrafting and bolding more the concept and idea of evil, in a such big manner as to entithise it. While doing this it also creates all sort of desperate religious psychotic states of fear, cowardice, desperateness and paranoia. This is why I think the Devil is not true. Or if he is, than God must also be evil or at least perverted into seing evil fulfilled. But perhaps evil is not evil, in the paranoic, extreme and exaggerated way religious has made us conceptualise it. Perhaps all this religious concepts (evil,the devil, hell,etc) are wrong. They only create and induce mental fear and paranoia. I am sorry I am not quite seing that loving God everyone is preaching about at this moment in my life. A lot of bad things have happened to me, most of them very strange(feeling like being directly inflicted by God to me). Like what could go wrong did. In a Christian Orthodox mentality(brought about) the things that happened in my life drove me nuts, paranoic and psychotic. My suffering is more bitter as I see those who causing me purpoited injustice (in the extremist christian view they seem like devils or worse, but I am beggining to think that this is the way life just is, this is the way people are) feeling happy afterwards and perhaps even rejoicing, calming and feeling great(after big lawlessness, according to the Bible God should punish them and struck them or something, instead I see myself going lower and they higher and in dementia). Having all sort of thoughts as to who God is, why is he allowing that and MORE why is he doing this great unjustice repaying their evil with good and my goodness with evil. So this is where I am right now. I am in a foreign country currently. I knew it was trouble with the person who brought me here, from the times I was in my own country. I was very stressed about it and nervous, and one night before I left I had a dream, like a vision it calmed me entirely in an instant. I saw the blue skyes and the with clouds and upside a Church, I felt like it was the greatest holiday there existed there. Instant peace and calmness came upon me in an instant. I took that as a divine sign to go that everything will be good. Just that night I had decided to not go anymore. Anyway after all this bad things occured to me, I am also having bad dreams, that in the dream dictionary mean failure, dissaster, pain, suffering etc. Dreams that also mark me (but dreams can also be the result of represed emotions so I am taking them non-theistically to be just that).. Where I am now.. I am inclining towards atheism and disbelief in God, at least in some personal christian way. To me it's better than an unjust and evil God. I keep looking and looking and I don't seem to find what I did to deserve this and that makes me more depressed(of course if I think with a theistic head). So all my theism is causing me more and more pain and suffering. My theist perception of this things are causing me all this. So here I am giving theism one more chance. Explain this things to me. A lot of people said talk to your priest. Well my priest is 1500 kms away.

I can tell you from personal experience that forsaking religion and faith did not bring me any personal peace or rest.

Without taking away from your experiences, everyone has experienced bad times in life, some more than others. If you read the stories of the saints, you will see that they very likely experienced much worse than what you have, yet they allowed those experiences to strengthen their faith, not tear it down. We cannot fully control our environment, but we can control our reaction to our environment. Pray for those who have wronged you. Show love to them, intercede on their behalf before God.

If you know you are real, and you are a separate entity than God, why do you have a hard time believing the devil is a separate individual? Why would you even consider him to be God?

Nonsense.

What God does, His actions, in the end are all in order to bring us closer to Him, and for our own salvation....even if we don't see it that way at the time.

The devil tempts us daily, trying to get us to stumble, he sews anger, discontent, jealousy, he whispers gossip in our ears, and makes us doubt not only ourselves, but, others.....

Why?

In order to drive us further from God.

Polar opposites.

So even the worst evil is made to bring us closer to God? Than who is the architecht of all this "evil" if not God?

I was not speaking of separateness but about being part of God. Isn't it God ALL, THE WHOLE and more than it?

My question to you is how do you know who and when is the Devil and that he exists as an Entity? How do you know he is real? Tell me.

Sounds like you have deeper issues than whether or not the Devil is real. If you don't believe Jesus is real, then why believe in the existence of the Devil?

The story of Jesus can be seen as a narcisist and unnecessary act. After all God is God if exists, he has no limitations. Always look at the results. How did that influence the world and made it a better place ? It just put God on the spot, and bring more fear and terror to people, especially by the idea of hell and hell eternal and other errors. Perhaps there is more to this world than 'narrow-minded, hypocrite and violent' Christianity (before you jump on my head I did not totally excluded the possibility of the existence of a good Christianity or the totall exclusion of Christianity from truth).. I used this epithetes because this was the Christianity of most fathers, a narrow-minded , violent Apologetics with shades of hypocrisy always hidden under the cover of 'the Church' , and Church grandomania. Perhaps the Christian story was misread all this years (there are many branches of Christianity today that consider Jesus just a main man, who achieved his potential and etc, hell there is even a branch called Atheistic Christianity). So you see even being Atheistic I am covered as a Christian , of having faith in Christ (being historical or not) and picking and choosing(in the end everybody picks and chooses from the Bible as in to how to interpret certain events). The bible is not the Epigraph of Ethicism and Morality. Esspecially if not read and understood in a most non-literal manner. My idea is.. perhaps there is no God.. and perhaps no Devil.. One thing is sure If A(God) exists than B(the Devil) does not have to exist. The existence of the Devil is just engrafting and bolding more the concept and idea of evil, in a such big manner as to entithise it. While doing this it also creates all sort of desperate religious psychotic states of fear, cowardice, desperateness and paranoia. This is why I think the Devil is not true. Or if he is, than God must also be evil or at least perverted into seing evil fulfilled. But perhaps evil is not evil, in the paranoic, extreme and exaggerated way religious has made us conceptualise it. Perhaps all this religious concepts (evil,the devil, hell,etc) are wrong. They only create and induce mental fear and paranoia. I am sorry I am not quite seing that loving God everyone is preaching about at this moment in my life. A lot of bad things have happened to me, most of them very strange(feeling like being directly inflicted by God to me). Like what could go wrong did. In a Christian Orthodox mentality(brought about) the things that happened in my life drove me nuts, paranoic and psychotic. My suffering is more bitter as I see those who causing me purpoited injustice (in the extremist christian view they seem like devils or worse, but I am beggining to think that this is the way life just is, this is the way people are) feeling happy afterwards and perhaps even rejoicing, calming and feeling great(after big lawlessness, according to the Bible God should punish them and struck them or something, instead I see myself going lower and they higher and in dementia). Having all sort of thoughts as to who God is, why is he allowing that and MORE why is he doing this great unjustice repaying their evil with good and my goodness with evil. So this is where I am right now. I am in a foreign country currently. I knew it was trouble with the person who brought me here, from the times I was in my own country. I was very stressed about it and nervous, and one night before I left I had a dream, like a vision it calmed me entirely in an instant. I saw the blue skyes and the with clouds and upside a Church, I felt like it was the greatest holiday there existed there. Instant peace and calmness came upon me in an instant. I took that as a divine sign to go that everything will be good. Just that night I had decided to not go anymore. Anyway after all this bad things occured to me, I am also having bad dreams, that in the dream dictionary mean failure, dissaster, pain, suffering etc. Dreams that also mark me (but dreams can also be the result of represed emotions so I am taking them non-theistically to be just that).. Where I am now.. I am inclining towards atheism and disbelief in God, at least in some personal christian way. To me it's better than an unjust and evil God. I keep looking and looking and I don't seem to find what I did to deserve this and that makes me more depressed(of course if I think with a theistic head). So all my theism is causing me more and more pain and suffering. My theist perception of this things are causing me all this. So here I am giving theism one more chance. Explain this things to me. A lot of people said talk to your priest. Well my priest is 1500 kms away.

Humm, i guess i will answer what i can from my personal experience.I was (am) like you in the sence of everything going wrong. EVGERYTHING! if i had a choice or right or left i would take the wrong choice. one day gicing someone a ride somwhere i expressed to them my problemand view of the cause. p told them everything always goes wrong and i said i must be great entertainment for GOd. he must be laughing away at me misforrtone. i then said why does god do this to me.

and the person said in a loud and kinda agitated tone.

its not god...its the devil!

it was like they hit me in the head with a brick, suddenly it all made sence, of course, why did i not see it. why did i blame god for everything. why did i not even consider the devil causing all this and laughing at my misofrtum.

the answer is because i was entangled with bad things in my life and i was in the clutches of the devil who was able to make me no only suffer but to blame GOd as the cause of suffering in my life!

this was a turning point in my life, going closer to god and back to my Orthodoxy of my childhood.

dont have much time to answer but also take into consideration that the posibility exists that you cannot comprihend what God is doing. like a mentaly retarted person will never be able to understand certain concepts. ie: a five dollar bill is worth more then a 1 dollar bill.

If you know you are real, and you are a separate entity than God, why do you have a hard time believing the devil is a separate individual? Why would you even consider him to be God?

Nonsense.

What God does, His actions, in the end are all in order to bring us closer to Him, and for our own salvation....even if we don't see it that way at the time.

The devil tempts us daily, trying to get us to stumble, he sews anger, discontent, jealousy, he whispers gossip in our ears, and makes us doubt not only ourselves, but, others.....

Why?

In order to drive us further from God.

Polar opposites.

So even the worst evil is made to bring us closer to God? Than who is the architecht of all this "evil" if not God?

I was not speaking of separateness but about being part of God. Isn't it God ALL, THE WHOLE and more than it?

My question to you is how do you know who and when is the Devil and that he exists as an Entity? How do you know he is real? Tell me.

Sounds like you have deeper issues than whether or not the Devil is real. If you don't believe Jesus is real, then why believe in the existence of the Devil?

The story of Jesus can be seen as a narcisist and unnecessary act. After all God is God if exists, he has no limitations. Always look at the results. How did that influence the world and made it a better place ? It just put God on the spot, and bring more fear and terror to people, especially by the idea of hell and hell eternal and other errors. Perhaps there is more to this world than 'narrow-minded, hypocrite and violent' Christianity (before you jump on my head I did not totally excluded the possibility of the existence of a good Christianity or the totall exclusion of Christianity from truth).. I used this epithetes because this was the Christianity of most fathers, a narrow-minded , violent Apologetics with shades of hypocrisy always hidden under the cover of 'the Church' , and Church grandomania. Perhaps the Christian story was misread all this years (there are many branches of Christianity today that consider Jesus just a main man, who achieved his potential and etc, hell there is even a branch called Atheistic Christianity). So you see even being Atheistic I am covered as a Christian , of having faith in Christ (being historical or not) and picking and choosing(in the end everybody picks and chooses from the Bible as in to how to interpret certain events). The bible is not the Epigraph of Ethicism and Morality. Esspecially if not read and understood in a most non-literal manner. My idea is.. perhaps there is no God.. and perhaps no Devil.. One thing is sure If A(God) exists than B(the Devil) does not have to exist. The existence of the Devil is just engrafting and bolding more the concept and idea of evil, in a such big manner as to entithise it. While doing this it also creates all sort of desperate religious psychotic states of fear, cowardice, desperateness and paranoia. This is why I think the Devil is not true. Or if he is, than God must also be evil or at least perverted into seing evil fulfilled. But perhaps evil is not evil, in the paranoic, extreme and exaggerated way religious has made us conceptualise it. Perhaps all this religious concepts (evil,the devil, hell,etc) are wrong. They only create and induce mental fear and paranoia. I am sorry I am not quite seing that loving God everyone is preaching about at this moment in my life. A lot of bad things have happened to me, most of them very strange(feeling like being directly inflicted by God to me). Like what could go wrong did. In a Christian Orthodox mentality(brought about) the things that happened in my life drove me nuts, paranoic and psychotic. My suffering is more bitter as I see those who causing me purpoited injustice (in the extremist christian view they seem like devils or worse, but I am beggining to think that this is the way life just is, this is the way people are) feeling happy afterwards and perhaps even rejoicing, calming and feeling great(after big lawlessness, according to the Bible God should punish them and struck them or something, instead I see myself going lower and they higher and in dementia). Having all sort of thoughts as to who God is, why is he allowing that and MORE why is he doing this great unjustice repaying their evil with good and my goodness with evil. So this is where I am right now. I am in a foreign country currently. I knew it was trouble with the person who brought me here, from the times I was in my own country. I was very stressed about it and nervous, and one night before I left I had a dream, like a vision it calmed me entirely in an instant. I saw the blue skyes and the with clouds and upside a Church, I felt like it was the greatest holiday there existed there. Instant peace and calmness came upon me in an instant. I took that as a divine sign to go that everything will be good. Just that night I had decided to not go anymore. Anyway after all this bad things occured to me, I am also having bad dreams, that in the dream dictionary mean failure, dissaster, pain, suffering etc. Dreams that also mark me (but dreams can also be the result of represed emotions so I am taking them non-theistically to be just that).. Where I am now.. I am inclining towards atheism and disbelief in God, at least in some personal christian way. To me it's better than an unjust and evil God. I keep looking and looking and I don't seem to find what I did to deserve this and that makes me more depressed(of course if I think with a theistic head). So all my theism is causing me more and more pain and suffering. My theist perception of this things are causing me all this. So here I am giving theism one more chance. Explain this things to me. A lot of people said talk to your priest. Well my priest is 1500 kms away.

Humm, i guess i will answer what i can from my personal experience.I was (am) like you in the sence of everything going wrong. EVGERYTHING! if i had a choice or right or left i would take the wrong choice. one day gicing someone a ride somwhere i expressed to them my problemand view of the cause. p told them everything always goes wrong and i said i must be great entertainment for GOd. he must be laughing away at me misforrtone. i then said why does god do this to me.

and the person said in a loud and kinda agitated tone.

its not god...its the devil!

it was like they hit me in the head with a brick, suddenly it all made sence, of course, why did i not see it. why did i blame god for everything. why did i not even consider the devil causing all this and laughing at my misofrtum.

the answer is because i was entangled with bad things in my life and i was in the clutches of the devil who was able to make me no only suffer but to blame GOd as the cause of suffering in my life!

this was a turning point in my life, going closer to god and back to my Orthodoxy of my childhood.

dont have much time to answer but also take into consideration that the posibility exists that you cannot comprihend what God is doing. like a mentaly retarted person will never be able to understand certain concepts. ie: a five dollar bill is worth more then a 1 dollar bill.

The thing is... yeah... I said it is the Devil , that doesn't do it for me.. the question then is why does the devil (is allowed to) have so much power. Why does God let him do all this things? If we look in the book of Job Satan is asking permission from God to do things and God grants him. It is like God and Satan are making cosmical bets about us, and playing games. Look what poor Job had to suffer just for the entertainment of some game/bet between God and Satan. And in the end he also had to suffer the triumphalist speech of God on top of that. It is God that allows and stands with all this, according to our doctrines and the Bible, no? Satan just looks like that evil kid with a dumb or evil parent that let's him do all the disasters that come to his mind. Perhaps God is even himself evil or perverted, other than that why would he do such things and put up with them, more why do this things that also hurt my soul. I feel like I've been in the Dark Night most of my life, always being put down by God or whosoever, not being able to feel and think right and etc.. So you see in the end is all God's fault, because he allows all this and nothing happens without his accord. Why did God put up with all this evil from all times if he is not evil aswell.. But perhaps... just perhaps this ontologycal and entithised religious evil does not exist and it is just a psychological disorder brought by religion. I'm sorry but if God is as Christianity says, than he is to blame for absolutely all, or he is limited and not all powerful. In the later case I would trouble more if I was a Christian.. Who knows maybe one day Satan(the other God) can defeat your God or cause him harm. Maybe your God is an emotional and psychological wreck.. Just look at ur bible.. Easily harmed, offended, causing harm and commending crimes.. The funny thing is that his people in the bible always lost and was worthless and insignificant on the map of the world. This should make you wonder about the gods of the other peoples that were really great and profitable in time... because this God seems inferior to them.. To me the old God of Christianity is obsolete. Old Christianity has long been refuted, in my eyes. Only the fools the blind , the immatures and the ignorants still buy it. All this stuff about God, evil, hell, the devil, all this Extremist Grandisment Churchism, and other Medieval superstitions. Just look at the people who are practicant Christians. No offence they are the lowest of society. That is not my goal. That is not who I want to be in life. Looking also to contemporan saints I have nothing to say but the same things. This people look like crazy, psychologically disordered, a bit schizophrenic. I don't want to be rude.. No wonder they see devils and fight with them and stuff.. I wonder why NONE of the prophecy of this so regarded saints and esteemed Christians never came to be? Esspecially of those on our contemporan times and before them... There were some monks in the 19th century who predicated the end. None of the dates fit.. Guess what we are still here.. Reality refutes this people and all their religion and life's devotion.

About the works of the devil and the works of God, as you said lately I don't know who is who( though I am trying to recover from this theism. I opened a thread called "The deeds of the devil and the deeds of God" . You are invited to write there. I hope i'll see no more of this violent, rude and agressive ignorance hiding(like LBK and podk...) oops I mean apologetics.

I hope i'll see no more of this violent, rude and agressive ignorance hiding(like LBK and podk...)

Where is the violence, rudeness and aggression in the advice given of reading the Bible, of not obsessing about the end times, and of talking to your priest about your problems?

I told you I read the Bible and the book of Job and your next reply was rude saying like I want you to do the job for me. Where did that come from? If you believe in the Christian law that is exactly what you OWE TO DO and more than that. Just read the epistle of the GALATIANS. As concerning my priest I confessed to different priests and it's been 3 years since I last confessed. And let's face it, the see your priest thing is just as rude as everyhing. Let's face it, priests don't actually do apologetics and give elaborate answers. First because they are caught off-guard, they don't really expect that, and second because they don't have time. To me you sound like a rude and insensitive person. But hey I am not here to reason with you or give you any explanations and lose my time with you. If you are not willing to help me and respond to my questions than don't but don't make a "telenovela" out of it.

+ This is a forum of discussion. It is more disrespectfully to reject dialogue and conversation under this circumstances.

If the forum is not meant to be a forum, than let's shut it down and put some pancarts with 'Go see your priests' and 'Ask the Answer'

I hope i'll see no more of this violent, rude and agressive ignorance hiding(like LBK and podk...)

Where is the violence, rudeness and aggression in the advice given of reading the Bible, of not obsessing about the end times, and of talking to your priest about your problems?

I told you I read the Bible and the book of Job and your next reply was rude saying like I want you to do the job for me. Where did that come from? If you believe in the Christian law that is exactly what you OWE TO DO and more than that. Just read the epistle of the GALATIANS. As concerning my priest I confessed to different priests and it's been 3 years since I last confessed. And let's face it, the see your priest thing is just as rude as everyhing. Let's face it, priests don't actually do apologetics and give elaborate answers. First because they are caught off-guard, they don't really expect that, and second because they don't have time. To me you sound like a rude and insensitive person. But hey I am not here to reason with you or give you any explanations and lose my time with you. If you are not willing to help me and respond to my questions than don't but don't make a "telenovela" out of it.

You've been given good and sensible advice by several people here, and on several threads you've started here. Yet you've rejected all of it, and, on top of that, called people "rude", "ignorant". "violent", etc.

You asked for advice, people have given it. Don't blame them for your refusal to heed their advice.

I hope i'll see no more of this violent, rude and agressive ignorance hiding(like LBK and podk...)

Where is the violence, rudeness and aggression in the advice given of reading the Bible, of not obsessing about the end times, and of talking to your priest about your problems?

I told you I read the Bible and the book of Job and your next reply was rude saying like I want you to do the job for me. Where did that come from? If you believe in the Christian law that is exactly what you OWE TO DO and more than that. Just read the epistle of the GALATIANS. As concerning my priest I confessed to different priests and it's been 3 years since I last confessed. And let's face it, the see your priest thing is just as rude as everyhing. Let's face it, priests don't actually do apologetics and give elaborate answers. First because they are caught off-guard, they don't really expect that, and second because they don't have time. To me you sound like a rude and insensitive person. But hey I am not here to reason with you or give you any explanations and lose my time with you. If you are not willing to help me and respond to my questions than don't but don't make a "telenovela" out of it.

You've been given good and sensible advice by several people here, and on several threads you've started here. Yet you've rejected all of it, and, on top of that, called people "rude", "ignorant". "violent", etc.

You asked for advice, people have given it. Don't blame them for your refusal to heed their advice.

I asked for answers on that thread the deeds of God vs the deeds of the devil. Don't worry I already know you don't know, and couldn't handle a serious theological conversation. Other than that as I said don't make a telenovela out of it. I will not respond to your next replies on this thread. Go rude yourself .

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

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And He said to them, It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.'

Does the skeptic need evidence? Perhaps he just needs humility to accept that he will never have all the answers.

I believe that the Devil is a created being who, using free will, abandoned his God given purpose and fell from glory. He did not create sin, since sin is not a "thing", it is the absence of holiness. He has no control over us, but he can influence us. I know he is not God because it is logically impossible for God to abandon His own nature. God is supernatural, not schizophrenic.

Who created the Devil? How can the devil be entirely separated from God and have nothing of him if he comes from God and his origins are from God? And what is the nature of God, how do you know his nature is not also evil, even if not in the ontological sense? Because as Isaia says he causes calumny. Theft is a thing, murder is a thing, lying is a thing. According to the Bible sin is the transgression of the law. What I am saying is that perhaps evil does not exist in the extreme, ontological way, but absolutely every evil is a calumny for the development of our own maturity or something. What do you say? How can there be something outside God and without God? Isn't God like the all, pervading all and transcending it? Isn't all part of God? Is there something that exists that it is not sustained by God? How can God be God all-powerful, all-knowing if there are things that exist outside of Him?

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

I am confused. I am in a bit delicate time of my life. That is why I opened all this threads around the same subject. I don't know who God is anymore or who the devil is.

In the book of Job, God and the devil seem to work together or atleast play dice over Job. In Isaiah 45 God says he creates evil/calumny. AFAIK in Judaism the agent of calumny is Satan, and also the prosecutor in the court of judgement.

I guess what I am asking is who the Devil is and what are his relations with God.

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

I am confused. I am in a bit delicate time of my life. That is why I opened all this threads around the same subject. I don't know who God is anymore or who the devil is.

In the book of Job, God and the devil seem to work together or atleast play dice over Job. In Isaiah 45 God says he creates evil/calumny. AFAIK in Judaism the agent of calumny is Satan, and also the prosecutor in the court of judgement.

I guess what I am asking is who the Devil is and what are his relations with God.

First of all, thanks, for your calm reply.

Please realize that the scripture can be interpreted in many ways, some doing so by cherry picking, and some without proper guidance. What you see, may not be the same with others. It then comes down to what is reasonable interpretation. But we need not get down to hermeneutics, unless we have to.

In the beginning, there is no Devil. Perhaps you forgot about this, in Ezekiel 28 he was described as12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Notice that he was described as having full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. This isn't a description of what is evil. Moreover, he was the anointed cherub that covers. As I see it, since there were cherubim, then among them he was "the". His nearness with God is so that he covers. This is really, really close. He was perfect in his ways.

He became the evil when iniquity was found in him.

Does this clarify what is the relationship of Lucifer with God before the former became evil?

Isn't God the source of all things, you might say. The answer is no. While God is the source, he is the source of all things good, since good begets good, a tree is known by its fruit. It is illogical to argue otherwise. Sure, the KJV translated Isaiah 45:7 as

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things

But "evil" here is open to other translation such as calamity which NASB used. In any case, we have to be careful how we read text, and shouldn't take things as it appeared.

Since God created all things good, the covering cherub then became evil, not from God but as the fathers had put it by deprivation of what is good. It is not God who deprived of what is good, on the contrary, he gave him things that are good. Rather, it is Lucifer himself who rejected the goodness of his state and relationship with God, for in Ezekiel again,

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

So here, we see him as himself being the source of his own corruption, and not God, for angels have free will, just as we. Makes sense?

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And He said to them, It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.'

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

I am confused. I am in a bit delicate time of my life. That is why I opened all this threads around the same subject. I don't know who God is anymore or who the devil is.

In the book of Job, God and the devil seem to work together or atleast play dice over Job. In Isaiah 45 God says he creates evil/calumny. AFAIK in Judaism the agent of calumny is Satan, and also the prosecutor in the court of judgement.

I guess what I am asking is who the Devil is and what are his relations with God.

First of all, thanks, for your calm reply.

Please realize that the scripture can be interpreted in many ways, some doing so by cherry picking, and some without proper guidance. What you see, may not be the same with others. It then comes down to what is reasonable interpretation. But we need not get down to hermeneutics, unless we have to.

In the beginning, there is no Devil. Perhaps you forgot about this, in Ezekiel 28 he was described as12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Notice that he was described as having full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. This isn't a description of what is evil. Moreover, he was the anointed cherub that covers. As I see it, since there were cherubim, then among them he was "the". His nearness with God is so that he covers. This is really, really close. He was perfect in his ways.

He became the evil when iniquity was found in him.

Does this clarify what is the relationship of Lucifer with God before the former became evil?

Isn't God the source of all things, you might say. The answer is no. While God is the source, he is the source of all things good, since good begets good, a tree is known by its fruit. It is illogical to argue otherwise. Sure, the KJV translated Isaiah 45:7 as

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things

But "evil" here is open to other translation such as calamity which NASB used. In any case, we have to be careful how we read text, and shouldn't take things as it appeared.

Since God created all things good, the covering cherub then became evil, not from God but as the fathers had put it by deprivation of what is good. It is not God who deprived of what is good, on the contrary, he gave him things that are good. Rather, it is Lucifer himself who rejected the goodness of his state and relationship with God, for in Ezekiel again,

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

So here, we see him as himself being the source of his own corruption, and not God, for angels have free will, just as we. Makes sense?

I knew that according to Christianity Satan was "Lucifer" and angel of light. But what is his relation with God now? How does Satan relate with God? And where did Satan drawed his iniquity from? Wasn't Satan created from God and doesn't Satan still have the essence of God in him? If no how could he still be alive? Isn't God the one that sustains all life, and LIFE itself and isn't all creation emerging from Him being part of Him and His doing, having His essence which is Life as the Scriptures say that God is Life? The Logos is the truth the way and the life.. The life of men.. etc.. If the Devil still has this divine essence in him how can he be the very incarnation and entity of evil,pure evil,If God is entirely good,benevolent ? What is evil according to you and where does it originate from? Can something exist without God who is the source and support of all creation, and as the Scriptures say if he takes back his support they will perish?(If we are bragging and battleling in Scripture, note to LBK)

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

I am confused. I am in a bit delicate time of my life. That is why I opened all this threads around the same subject. I don't know who God is anymore or who the devil is.

In the book of Job, God and the devil seem to work together or atleast play dice over Job. In Isaiah 45 God says he creates evil/calumny. AFAIK in Judaism the agent of calumny is Satan, and also the prosecutor in the court of judgement.

I guess what I am asking is who the Devil is and what are his relations with God.

First of all, thanks, for your calm reply.

Please realize that the scripture can be interpreted in many ways, some doing so by cherry picking, and some without proper guidance. What you see, may not be the same with others. It then comes down to what is reasonable interpretation. But we need not get down to hermeneutics, unless we have to.

In the beginning, there is no Devil. Perhaps you forgot about this, in Ezekiel 28 he was described as12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Notice that he was described as having full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. This isn't a description of what is evil. Moreover, he was the anointed cherub that covers. As I see it, since there were cherubim, then among them he was "the". His nearness with God is so that he covers. This is really, really close. He was perfect in his ways.

He became the evil when iniquity was found in him.

Does this clarify what is the relationship of Lucifer with God before the former became evil?

Isn't God the source of all things, you might say. The answer is no. While God is the source, he is the source of all things good, since good begets good, a tree is known by its fruit. It is illogical to argue otherwise. Sure, the KJV translated Isaiah 45:7 as

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things

But "evil" here is open to other translation such as calamity which NASB used. In any case, we have to be careful how we read text, and shouldn't take things as it appeared.

Since God created all things good, the covering cherub then became evil, not from God but as the fathers had put it by deprivation of what is good. It is not God who deprived of what is good, on the contrary, he gave him things that are good. Rather, it is Lucifer himself who rejected the goodness of his state and relationship with God, for in Ezekiel again,

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

So here, we see him as himself being the source of his own corruption, and not God, for angels have free will, just as we. Makes sense?

I knew that according to Christianity Satan was "Lucifer" and angel of light. But what is his relation with God now? How does Satan relate with God?

He is God's enemy. The opposer.

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And where did Satan drawed his iniquity from? Wasn't Satan created from God and doesn't Satan still have the essence of God in him?

I already answered that from the previous post. As an individual, Satan, like us, has freedom to choose. He could remain in his state, but like other angels who went out with him abandoned where they used to be, i.e. being in the presence of God.

Perhaps, you need to clarify your statements. How can he have God's essence? If he has God's essence then he is God, and not a created being. What do you mean by having God's essence? God's goodness? That would be absurd given that his activities consist of opposing what is good.

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If no how could he still be alive?

He is "dead", just as sinners are, being separated from God.

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Isn't God the one that sustains all life, and LIFE itself and isn't all creation emerging from Him being part of Him and His doing, having His essence which is Life as the Scriptures say that God is Life? The Logos is the truth the way and the life.. The life of men.. etc..

God sustains life in that he provides what we need to live. As for angels, like men, it will continue existing, whether they are good or evil. Life is given, not for destruction but to live. Again, it is absurd that God would give life with a purpose of destroying it. In Calvinism doctrine, yes. But as to the teaching handed down by the apostles, no.

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If the Devil still has this divine essence in him how can he be the very incarnation and entity of evil,pure evil,If God is entirely good,benevolent ? What is evil according to you and where does it originate from? Can something exist without God who is the source and support of all creation, and as the Scriptures say if he takes back his support they will perish?(If we are bragging and battleling in Scripture, note to LBK)

Already answered this. Please re-read my previous post.

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And He said to them, It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER.'

If, as you seem to project, you are looking for the truth, could you perhaps start with your profile? Say, your faith is "Atheism" and not Christianity, that is if you are fully convinced of what you believe now.

You say, perhaps God and the devil are the same, how did you arrive at that? You gave examples such as the experience of Job, and suggested you value what is logical, could you then please create a well formed argument? Such as

A is B.B is C.Therefore, A is C.

Is that possible?

Thanks.

I am confused. I am in a bit delicate time of my life. That is why I opened all this threads around the same subject. I don't know who God is anymore or who the devil is.

In the book of Job, God and the devil seem to work together or atleast play dice over Job. In Isaiah 45 God says he creates evil/calumny. AFAIK in Judaism the agent of calumny is Satan, and also the prosecutor in the court of judgement.

I guess what I am asking is who the Devil is and what are his relations with God.

First of all, thanks, for your calm reply.

Please realize that the scripture can be interpreted in many ways, some doing so by cherry picking, and some without proper guidance. What you see, may not be the same with others. It then comes down to what is reasonable interpretation. But we need not get down to hermeneutics, unless we have to.

In the beginning, there is no Devil. Perhaps you forgot about this, in Ezekiel 28 he was described as12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Notice that he was described as having full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. This isn't a description of what is evil. Moreover, he was the anointed cherub that covers. As I see it, since there were cherubim, then among them he was "the". His nearness with God is so that he covers. This is really, really close. He was perfect in his ways.

He became the evil when iniquity was found in him.

Does this clarify what is the relationship of Lucifer with God before the former became evil?

Isn't God the source of all things, you might say. The answer is no. While God is the source, he is the source of all things good, since good begets good, a tree is known by its fruit. It is illogical to argue otherwise. Sure, the KJV translated Isaiah 45:7 as

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things

But "evil" here is open to other translation such as calamity which NASB used. In any case, we have to be careful how we read text, and shouldn't take things as it appeared.

Since God created all things good, the covering cherub then became evil, not from God but as the fathers had put it by deprivation of what is good. It is not God who deprived of what is good, on the contrary, he gave him things that are good. Rather, it is Lucifer himself who rejected the goodness of his state and relationship with God, for in Ezekiel again,

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

So here, we see him as himself being the source of his own corruption, and not God, for angels have free will, just as we. Makes sense?

I knew that according to Christianity Satan was "Lucifer" and angel of light. But what is his relation with God now? How does Satan relate with God?

He is God's enemy. The opposer.

Can God have an enemy, an adversary, unless he wants to?

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And where did Satan drawed his iniquity from? Wasn't Satan created from God and doesn't Satan still have the essence of God in him?

I already answered that from the previous post. As an individual, Satan, like us, has freedom to choose. He could remain in his state, but like other angels who went out with him abandoned where they used to be, i.e. being in the presence of God.

That means that evil pre-existed satan as he had evil as an option.

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Perhaps, you need to clarify your statements. How can he have God's essence? If he has God's essence then he is God, and not a created being. What do you mean by having God's essence? God's goodness? That would be absurd given that his activities consist of opposing what is good.

Isn't life God's essence? Isn't the essence of God that of which all creation is made?

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If no how could he still be alive?

He is "dead", just as sinners are, being separated from God.

I see sinners still breathing, moving, etc, and having that something to return to God, the image of God in them, not being entirely evil in their essence.

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Isn't God the one that sustains all life, and LIFE itself and isn't all creation emerging from Him being part of Him and His doing, having His essence which is Life as the Scriptures say that God is Life? The Logos is the truth the way and the life.. The life of men.. etc..

God sustains life in that he provides what we need to live. As for angels, like men, it will continue existing, whether they are good or evil. Life is given, not for destruction but to live. Again, it is absurd that God would give life with a purpose of destroying it. In Calvinism doctrine, yes. But as to the teaching handed down by the apostles, no.

I don't care about Calvinism and if you mean predestination, destiny, etc learn that this controversy predates calvinism with more than half of millennium. It was mostly consumed in Gaul(France today). Isn't God the source of all life? "In him we live, we move and have our being" (Cretan proverb + Scripture + Paul) . So the demons must also live move and have their being in God, who if life. And according to that it follows that the being of God is also evil. A=B , B=C, C=A.

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If the Devil still has this divine essence in him how can he be the very incarnation and entity of evil,pure evil,If God is entirely good,benevolent ? What is evil according to you and where does it originate from? Can something exist without God who is the source and support of all creation, and as the Scriptures say if he takes back his support they will perish?(If we are bragging and battleling in Scripture, note to LBK)